Hunting for Grails: 21 Must-Have HUNTER×HUNTER Apparel and Collectibles

From graniph’s manga-accurate capsule to the figures fetching real money on the aftermarket, here’s where to start building a collection worthy of the Hunter Association

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• Wearable Grails: The Apparel
• Premium Display Figures
• Prize Figures and Capsule Toys
• Cult Favorites for the Deep-Cut Collector
• The Foundational Grail: The Manga Itself
• Where to Start

Few shonen properties have managed to translate their specific tone — part boys’-adventure optimism, part genuinely unsettling psychological horror — into merchandise as thoughtfully as HUNTER×HUNTER has over the past two years. Yoshihiro Togashi’s manga, still on hiatus more often than not since its 1998 debut, has nonetheless become one of the most active licenses in anime apparel and collectibles, spanning everything from considered Japanese streetwear capsules to display-shelf figures built for the character actors serious collectors actually want: Hisoka, Chrollo, Machi, the Phantom Troupe in general. Here are 21 pieces worth tracking down, organized from wearable to shelf-worthy to essential.

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The clearest entry point remains graniph’s HUNTER×HUNTER capsule, a 14-piece collection built around the series’ most pivotal early arcs — the Hunter Exam, the Zoldyck Family arc, and the Yorknew City arc — rather than generic character portraits. That arc-specific approach is itself a small statement of intent: it means fans of the Chimera Ant arc or the manga-only material won’t find themselves represented here, but everyone who does get a shirt gets one built around a scene or relationship that actually matters to the story, not just a character silhouette slapped on cotton.

 

 

 

 

 

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The standout is the Friends T-shirt (1), a clean white tee bringing Gon, Killua, Kurapika, and Leorio together against the Hunter Association emblem, arguably the platonic ideal of a HUNTER×HUNTER graphic tee — simple enough to wear constantly, specific enough that anyone who’s read the series will clock it instantly. Right behind it is the Phantom Troupe Pattern button-up (2), a loose-fitting shirt covered in small illustrated panels pulled from the Yorknew arc, embroidered rather than simply printed in several places for a more premium finish than most anime collabs bother with — a detail that separates graniph’s approach from the flood of direct-to-garment print shirts flooding fan marketplaces. The capsule also includes a hooded T-shirt line (3) split across several character pairings, plus two weather-appropriate bottoms that round the collection into a genuinely wearable warm-season capsule rather than just a tee drop. Everything in the range runs $30 to $60 through graniph’s official webstore, a price point that undercuts most premium anime streetwear collides by a considerable margin while still delivering embroidered, arc-specific design work.

For a lower-cost, more widely stocked option, UNIQLO’s UT line (4) has run its own HUNTER×HUNTER graphic tee collection through UNIQLO’s official SPRZ/UT catalog, leaning on cleaner, more minimal character graphics than graniph’s illustration-heavy approach — a solid daily-wear alternative for anyone who wants the reference without the full capsule commitment, and considerably easier to find in physical stores outside Japan than most of the collectibles further down this list.

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Once you’re past T-shirts, the collecting really opens up. Good Smile Company’s Nendoroid line has become a reliable entry point for chibi-style figures, and the HUNTER×HUNTER pairing of No. 2803 Gon Freecss: Hunter Exam Ver. (5) and No. 2804 Killua Zoldyck: Hunter Exam Ver. (6) — sold separately but clearly designed as a matched set — capture both characters exactly as they appeared during the arc most fans consider the series’ true starting point, fishing rod and yo-yo included. Nendoroids run smaller and considerably more affordable than the line’s scale-figure counterparts, typically landing under $70, which makes this pairing one of the more accessible ways to own a genuinely premium, officially licensed HUNTER×HUNTER product rather than a fan-made alternative.

For collectors who want scale and detail over cuteness, Good Smile’s POP UP PARADE line has quietly built out one of the more complete HUNTER×HUNTER lineups on the market, standing roughly 17–18cm tall and priced in the $50–90 range depending on figure size. Netero (7), depicted mid-catchphrase at around 17cm, captures the Hunter Association Chairman’s signature pose better than any other figure release to date; Kurapika: Suit Ver. (8), rendered in his Yorknew-arc formalwear, has become one of the line’s best sellers specifically because it captures a version of the character rarely covered elsewhere; Machi (9), one of the only mainstream figure releases to give a Phantom Troupe member outside Hisoka and Chrollo real attention, fills a gap that’s been conspicuous given the character’s popularity; and Kite (10), a genuinely rare pull for a character whose screen time never matched his fan popularity, has become something of a sleeper grail among Chimera Ant arc devotees specifically because so few companies have bothered producing him at all.

At the top of the price tier sits Bandai’s S.H.Figuarts line, built for full articulation and display-scene accuracy rather than static posing, with individual figures typically landing between $45 and $100. The Gon & Killua “Hunter Exam” set(11), sold with a separate Option Parts Set (12) for additional expressions and accessories, anchors the line, while standalone Kurapika (13) and Leorio (14) figures — the latter finally giving the group’s most underrated member his own release, complete with a wide variety of exchangeable face parts to recreate specific scenes — round out the core four. The Hisoka entry (15) is the line’s clear centerpiece for aftermarket demand, shipping with enough interchangeable face parts to recreate several of his more infamous expressions and consistently commanding a premium over its original retail price on the resale market once initial stock sells through.

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Japan’s prize-figure ecosystem has treated HUNTER×HUNTER seriously for years, and Banpresto’s Grandista line is where that shows most clearly at scale — oversized, gallery-quality Gon (16) and Killua (17) figures pulled from UFO-catcher machines across Japan before making their way to secondary retailers internationally, standing considerably taller than the POP UP PARADE line and priced accordingly once they hit resale channels. The Grandista treatment tends to favor dynamic, action-oriented poses over the more restrained display stances common in premium scale lines, which is part of why the series has developed such a loyal following among collectors who want their shelf figures to actually look like they’re mid-fight rather than posed for a portrait.

Banpresto’s newer HunterxHunter Hunting Archives: Killua line extends that same energy into a dedicated sub-series built specifically around high-quality sculpting techniques the company has refined across its broader “Hunting Archives” branding — a name that, whether intentionally or not, plays directly on the source material’s own title. FuRyu’s Exceed Creative Figure: Hisoka (18) takes a more dynamic, mid-motion sculpting approach than the character’s other releases, capturing him in a pose closer to his card-throwing combat style than the more composed stances found on the S.H.Figuarts and POP UP PARADE versions, while the brand’s Exceed Creative “Cranenking” Chrollo Lucilfer: Requiem Ver. (19) — recently rereleased due to demand — remains one of the more sought-after Phantom Troupe pieces specifically because Chrollo gets comparatively little figure attention relative to his popularity as the Troupe’s leader and one of the series’ most consistently debated characters among fans.

For lower-cost, higher-volume collecting, Bandai’s HG Gashapon capsule toy line (20) reintroduced the four core protagonists — Gon with his fishing rod, Killua with his signature yo-yo, Kurapika with his Chain Jail ability sculpted directly onto his fingers, and Leorio mid-glasses-adjustment — in roughly 8cm scale in late 2026, each for around 500 yen per pull. That’s the kind of impulse-buy format that’s built entire secondary collector economies in Japan on its own, since gashapon lines are typically sold blind, turning even a relatively modest four-figure set into a genuine hunt for completionists chasing a specific character. Sitting alongside it, the Ichiban Kuji “Cross the X-Day” lottery series has spread individual character prizes — Killua as the Last One Prize, Illumi Zoldyck at the B tier, Hisoka at C, Leorio at D, Ging Freecss at E, and Pariston Maiyo at F, plus a mini mascot figure at the H tier — across its usual A-through-Last-One prize structure, meaning genuinely rare pulls like the Killua Last One Prize routinely resell well above their original lottery cost once the run sells out at retail.

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Beyond figures, a handful of smaller accessories have become genuine grails for fans deep enough into the fandom to want more than a shirt or a shelf piece. The PIICA Card and Clear Pass Case (21) — a dual-licensed transit card holder styled after the in-universe Hunter License — is exactly the kind of functional, everyday-carry collectible that tends to disappear fastest from Japanese specialty retailers, precisely because it doubles as something a fan can actually use rather than just display. Items in this category rarely get the same coverage as major figure lines, but they’re often the pieces longtime collectors mention first when asked what’s hardest to track down secondhand, simply because low production runs and everyday use mean fewer surviving examples make it to resale.

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No apparel capsule or figure line replaces the actual foundation, and for long-time readers, the true grail remains a complete physical set of Togashi’s manga — currently running 38 volumes and, given the series’ famously irregular publication schedule, still very much an active, ongoing collectible rather than a finished catalog. The manga’s history of hiatuses, some stretching years at a time due to Togashi’s health, has made completism itself part of the appeal: unlike most long-running shonen series, where a new volume every few months is a given, a HUNTER×HUNTER fan buying the latest release is buying into genuine uncertainty about when the next one arrives, which lends even routine new-volume purchases a weight that more consistently published series don’t carry. Complete Japanese-language sets are periodically reissued with limited bonus items, including illustration cards themed around the Phantom Troupe, making even the source material itself something collectors track for specific print runs rather than treating as a one-time purchase.

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For anyone building a collection from scratch, the most sensible order is roughly the one above: start with graniph or UNIQLO for something wearable day-to-day, add a Nendoroid or POP UP PARADE figure once you’ve settled on a favorite character, and treat the S.H.Figuarts and Grandista tiers as the long-term upgrade path once budget allows. The Ichiban Kuji and Gashapon lines are best approached as ongoing, low-stakes pulls rather than single purchases — part of the appeal is the randomness itself — and the manga, regardless of what else ends up on the shelf, is the one piece of this list worth having in full before anything else.

None of this is a static list, either. With the anime’s TV run continuing to expand its adaptation coverage and the manga itself still periodically resuming after its longer breaks, new capsule collections and figure lines have tended to follow closely behind any major story development — meaning the current lineup of grails, real as it is today, is likely to look noticeably different a year from now.